noun.
The process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The art or science of compiling lexicons or wordbooks; the scientific exposition of the forms, pronunciation, signification, and history of words.
noun.
The act or process of making a dictionary.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.
noun.
The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
noun.
The scholarlydiscipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
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noun.
the act of writing dictionaries
Word Usage
"The greatest lexicographer of the 19th and early 20th century, James A.H. Murray, began his Romanes Lecture in 1900 on The Evolution of English Lexicography — one of the key texts in English lexicography — with a little story:"